by Maria Eliza Villarino | Dec 13, 2017
Bush bean trials at CIAT’s headquarters in Colombia. Photo by: Neil Palmer / CIAT Back in 2000, Francisco Morales, then virologist and now emeritus at CIAT, led a survey of plant viruses present in Colombia. He and his team discovered geminiviruses, or...
by Natalia Gutiérrez | Dec 11, 2017
Could messiness be a good thing? Adaptation strategies in response to rapid urban development and transformation of food systems in Hanoi ; Overlooking the new urban area of Trung Hoa Nhan Chinh By Aaron Vansintjan & Brice Even | Dec 11, 2017 We stood in one...
by Rolf Sommer | Dec 5, 2017
This piece celebrates December 5, World Soils Day, and was first posted on the Thrive Blog, of the CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems. Just a few weeks ago, we published a study stating that farm land soils, if managed properly, have the potential to...
by José Antonio Arana | Nov 29, 2017
The evolution of technology has influenced several aspects of organizational life, placing information as the essential element to generate knowledge. Theorists and academicians talk of the current “information society”. This situation has taken us to an...
by Sylvia Pineda | Nov 29, 2017
Last October, the CIAT Phenomics Platform Team from the Agrobiodiversity Area conducted the “Drones for Agriculture” course, with the purpose of training staff from different programs at the Center, who were interested in getting acquainted with the remote...
by Natalia Gutiérrez | Nov 24, 2017
As stated in the Second International Conference on Nutrition (ICN2) Framework for Action, food systems play a central role in promoting consumption of diverse, nutritious and safe food for all and fighting malnutrition in all its forms. In order to navigate the...
by Georgina Smith | Nov 22, 2017
Eating beans bred to contain higher iron can boost memory and attention span in female university students in Rwanda, the study shows. Policy makers could consider including iron-biofortified beans as part of national strategies to overhaul food systems on the...
by Maria Eliza Villarino | Nov 21, 2017
Cassava production in Colombia’s southwestern Cauca department. Photo by: Neil Palmer / CIAT It was a eureka moment for geneticists at the CIAT gene bank. They found 60 new cassava varieties from samples brought into their lab from Colombia’s Cauca Department....
by Augusto Castro | Nov 21, 2017
Augusto Castro-Nuñez, a researcher on sustainable food systems at CIAT. Photo by: Neil Palmer/CIAT The below is an excerpt of Augusto Castro’s op-ed published on Devex: The scene remains vivid in my head. People packed the hall outside the plenary where...
by Georgina Smith | Nov 17, 2017
Understanding which agricultural practices work best, and where, to halt the impacts of climate change is one thing. But making sure those practices are adopted by communities – farmers, decision and policy makers – is another thing. The process of getting better...
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